Slithis: First Slither

Slithis (formally LDS) is trying its first recording in a long time with a new approach, integrating unconventional concepts like "rhythm" and "melody" into their improvisations.

Wheras I consider the LDS songs to be finished pieces, these are more like quick sketches that might evolve later. Everything was recorded live, in the course of an hour or less, and I've done almost no editing.

It's often sloppy, but we were playing ambidextrously most of the time. Also, Clark's tracks recorded fine, but all of my instruments were going through the wrong pre-amp setting on the mixer, adding a lot of distortion and frequency cutoff. But it's a good session, and as a document of a creative process, I consider it to be worth listening to. You might not. Such is art.

Clark S. Nova is primarily playing his Arp Axxe, augmenting with Mattel Synsonics drum pads and twiddling his circuit-bent voice device and a weevil oscillator. I'm mostly on the Moog Source and accompanying with RibbonSynth, a laptop Minimoog emulator and a couple of drum loops in Reason.